Goings On | 07/06/2026 - Franklin Furnace

Contents for July 7th, 2026

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Weekly Spotlight: **FIRST FIFTY VOICES**

1. Ana Mendieta, FF Alumn, now online at TheGuardian.com

2. Chloë Bass, FF Alumn, in 2026 Sharjah Architecture Triennial, UAE, opening Nov. 14

3. Sherman Fleming, FF Alumn, now online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LzWQnsno2c

4. Willie Cole, FF Alumn, at Sargent’s Daughters Gallery, Manhattan, thru July 10

5. Crystal Z. Campbell, FF Alumn, now online with University of Buffalo Library

6. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, FF Alumn, at The Hub, The Bronx, July 13

7. Buzz Spector, FF Alumn, at 68 Prince Street Gallery, Kingston, NY, July 5

8. Irina Danilova, FF Alumn, at Nadine, Brussels, Belgium, July 6, and more

9. Jenny Holzer, FF Alumn, at Museu e Biblioteca de Serralves, Porto, Portugal, thru Nov. 1

10. Ken Butler, FF Alumn, at The Brico Lodge, Brooklyn, July 17 and more

11. Barbara Hoffman, FF Alumn, Art Lawyer’s Journal, new issue now online

12. Julie Atlas Muz, FF Alumn, receives LMCC Manhattan Art Grant 2026

13. Brooke Singer, FF Alumn, at Francis Kite Club, Manhattan, July 8

14. R. Sikoryak, FF Alumn, new publication and more

15. Robert Longo, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com

16. Richard Nonas, FF Alumn, at Printed Matter, Manhattan

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Weekly Spotlight: **FIRST FIFTY VOICES**

Artist, designer, and educator Katherine Freygang has spent her career working at the intersection of art, ecology, and community. She’s also been a Franklin Furnace member for many years. At Franklin Furnace’s 50th Birthday JUBILEE Party at BAM on April 10th, she put into words what FF has meant to her:

“Franklin Furnace is mainly a language — a venue for freedom of language. And that was done from any direction any artist wanted to take it: books, performance, poetry, whatever. That freedom, and the safety to have that freedom, is extremely unique and incredibly valuable, and a fabulous contribution to the art world.”

Freedom and safety for artists are core values to us. Most institutions can manage one or the other. For fifty years, FF has insisted on both. Help us keep that critical combination alive. Any gift, any size, any language, keeps free expression flowing.

https://secure.givelively.org/donate/franklin-furnace-archive-inc/first-fifty-campaign

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1. Ana Mendieta, FF Alumn, now online at TheGuardian.com

Please visit this link:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/ng-interactive/2026/jul/01/ana-mendieta-art-death?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1782886443

Thank you.

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2. Chloë Bass, FF Alumn, in 2026 Sharjah Architecture Triennial, UAE, opening Nov. 14

Alexander Gray Associates is pleased to announce that Chloë Bass has been selected for inclusion in the 2026 Sharjah Architecture Triennial, Architecture Otherwise: Building Civic Infrastructure for Collective Futures, in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. The exhibition opens November 14, 2026. The institution’s press release follows:

⁠The Sharjah Architecture Triennial (SAT) – the first major platform for architecture and urbanism in the Middle East, North and East Africa and Asia – announces the dates and full participant list for its third edition (SAT03), Architecture Otherwise: Building Civic Infrastructure for Collective Futures, opening on 14 November 2026 and running until 14 April 2027.

Curated by anthropologist-curator Vyjayanthi Rao, with Associate Curator Tau Tavengwa, SAT03 brings together 32 participants whose practices span architecture, anthropology, urbanism, art, design, education and community initiatives. Through new installations, films, archives, workshops, performances and lectures, this multi-disciplinary edition explores how architecture can support collective life in a rapidly urbanising and interconnected world. Activating the city and wider Emirate, the projects will evolve over the duration of Triennial as part of a comprehensive programme that centres conversation and public interactivity.

Expanding architecture beyond questions of buildings and form, Architecture Otherwise foregrounds social, cultural and political infrastructures to examine how communities emerge and grow. Participants will examine migration, displacement, care, food systems, heritage, public space, climate adaptation, mobility, education, spirituality and collective memory, presenting architecture as an evolving practice rooted in people and relationships. Participants will engage with Sharjah’s layered urban fabric, with some projects developed as part of longer-term residencies, grounding the Triennial in local context.

Chloë Bass and Bill Dietz transform public address systems into polyphonic sound installations that amplify multiple voices and forms of shared listening.

Together, the participants of SAT03 propose new understandings of architecture as a practice grounded in collective life, demonstrating how civic infrastructures are continually produced through acts of care, imagination, movement, learning and solidarity.

Curator Vyjayanthi Rao commented: “Architecture Otherwise focuses on how cities are experienced, co-created, and transformed positioning architecture as the medium through which everyday social and cultural practices shape collective life. Against the exceptionalism, extractive logics, and separations that characterize architecture as usual, the Triennial proposes other ways of imagining, inhabiting, and collectively producing the built environment. Through city-wide activations across the five months of the Triennial, residents, practitioners, and visitors will generate new forms of civic engagement and shared meaning, exploring architecture’s entanglement with sound, food, media, materiality, technology, and ecologies. In contrast to architecture as usual, the Triennial repositions architecture as a lived and collective condition rather than a singular object or event.”

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3. Sherman Fleming, FF Alumn, now online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LzWQnsno2c

Please visit this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LzWQnsno2c

Thank you

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4. Willie Cole, FF Alumn, at Sargent’s Daughters Gallery, Manhattan, thru July 10

Willie Cole presents Mind, Body and Soul, the renowned interdisciplinary artist’s current solo exhibition at Sargent’s Daughter;s Gallery. This is the first Willie Cole show in NYC since the unfortunate closure of his longtime gallery Alexander & Bonin a few years ago. On view through July https://www.sargentsdaughters.com/mindbodyandsoul

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5. Crystal Z. Campbell, FF Alumn, now online with University of Buffalo Library

Please visit this link:

https://library.buffalo.edu/news/stories/2026/02/crystal-campbell.html

Thank you.

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6. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, FF Alumn, at The Hub, The Bronx, July 13

How Do We Move in Public?

July 13 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm Free

TO RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-do-we-move-in-public-tickets-1978301304456?aff=oddtdtcreator

For more information: https://socialpracticecuny.org/event/how-do-we-move-in-public/

A public program by Social Practice CUNY and BAAD! from the 4-part series How Do We ______ in Public?

How Do We Move in Public? is the second program in Social Practice CUNY’s 2026 series How Do We ___________ in Public?: a cycle of four free experimental events responding to contemporary crises shaping the cultural field, including the defunding and targeting of public institutions and the erosion of shared civic space.

This second program in the series is partnered with BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance.

Organized by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, this event brings together dancers/ choreographers with connections to the Bronx to generate movement-based actions in public spaces in the South Bronx: Argelia Arreola (with support from Pepatián: Bronx Arts ColLABorative), Ana ‘Rokafella’ García, Paloma McGregor/Angela’s Pulse, and Alethea Pace. Responding to escalating surveillance, policing, and state violence, particularly the terrorization of Black and Brown communities under ongoing ICE raids, the program advances movement as a counter-response to neglect, with care, and shared imagination, asking how bodies navigate, reshape, and reclaim urban space under conditions of threat.

This program will activate several points along 3rd Avenue and 149th Street, a major cultural crossroads at the heart of the South Bronx called The Hub, and is funded by the Mellon Foundation and the Eugene M. Lang Foundation.

Artist Bios

Argelia Arreola is a Bronx-based Mexican dancer, choreographer, and musician, deeply passionate about rhythm and the African influences embedded in diverse artistic expressions. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Contemporary Dance from Universidad Veracruzana in Mexico and has received over 23 years of formal training in traditional Guinean dance. Argelia leads her own artistic project, AcustiKorp, where she blends African, Afro-Cuban, and Mexican dance vocabularies through a contemporary lens. She is also a dancer and choreographer with Ballet Nepantla, a soloist performer and musician with La Mezcla Ensamble and a member of the Afro-Mexican band Jarana Beat, highlighting her versatility across dance, music, and percussion. Argelia has performed at prominent Venues and Festivals including Carnegie Hall, Festival Internacional Cervantino, Zócalo of Mexico City, Lincoln Center, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, BAM Dance Africa, Festival Danzas Negras CDMX, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Lincoln Center, Battery Dance Festival, Salvatore Capezio Theater at Peridance, Bryant Park Festival, BAAD Bronx. She is a 2025 Bronx Dance Fund Fellow through the Bronx Council on the Arts for the creation of her new choreographic work Hope Made Bread “una historia sobre Las Patronas”, inspired by Las Patronas, Mexico. She is also a recipient of the 2026 Bronx Cultural Visions Grant from the same organization to support the production of this work.

Ana “Rokafella” García is a NYC native of Puerto Rican descent who has represented Women in Hip-hop dance professionally over the past three decades. She co-founded Full Circle Prod Inc- NYC’s only non profit Break Dance Theater company with her husband Bboy Kwikstep generating theater pieces, original poetry and local dance related events. In addition to directing the documentary about Bgirls “All the Ladies Say” she coproduced a Hip hop variety TV show entitled Kwik2Rok fwith Kwiktep for BronxNet TV. She is hired internationally to judge Break dance competitions based on her knowledge of the classic Hip-hop dance style. She has hosted Breakin sessions at various locations in NYC since 1997 including The Point CDC, The Door, High Bridge and Alfred E Smith and had worked with female Japanese Graffiti Writer Shiro to create SHIROKA their T Shirt line4. Presently as an Adjunct Professor at The New School and Sarah Lawrence College, she motivates aspiring dancers to understand the Afro Diasporic roots of Hip hop and Club dance in addition to learning the business side of being an independent artist.

Paloma McGregor is an award-winning choreographer, writer, and arts leader, and the co-founder and Executive Artistic Director of Angela’s Pulse. For nearly two decades, Paloma has created performance works that center communities of color, blending a choreographer’s craft, a journalist’s urgency, and a community organizer’s vision. Through Angela’s Pulse, she has developed two signature programs: Dancing While Black, a platform for community-building and visibility among Black dance artists, and Building a Better Fishtrap, an iterative performance project rooted in her family’s vanishing fishing tradition and questions of heritage, resilience, and belonging. Paloma’s honors include the Herb Alpert Award (2025), Soros Arts Fellowship (2020), Dance/USA Fellowship (2019) and NY Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award (2017). She has performed at the Venice Biennale, the United Nations, State Department tours to South America and Turkey, and the World Festival of Black Arts in Senegal.

This performance of A’we Monumental is supported, in part, by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant. Building a Better Fishtrap – A’we Monumental is supported by the Mellon Foundation and the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project (with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Mellon Foundation). Fiscally sponsored by BAAD!, Angela’s Pulse is also a recipient of funding from Howard Gilman Foundation and The Mosaic Network & Fund (with lead funding from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)).

Alethea Pace is a Bronx-based interdisciplinary performing artist committed to creating work in and with her community that is rooted in social justice. She is a 2025 EPA Harlem River Artist-in-Residence, 2024 MAP Fund Recipient, 2023-2025 Civic Practice Partnership Artist-in-Residence at the Met Museum, and a 2021 Dance Magazine Harkness Promise Awardee. Her work has been presented by The Met Museum, BAAD!, Works and Process/Guggenheim, Pregones Theater, Dancing While Black, Danspace Project, New York Live Arts and the 92Y, to name a few. Alethea trained at Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center in the Bronx, and has a BA in Urban Design from NYU, an MFA in Digital and Interdisciplinary Arts from the City College of New York, and is an adjunct professor at Lehman College.

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7. Buzz Spector, FF Alumn, at 68 Prince Street Gallery, Kingston, NY, July 5

Buzz Spector in conversation with Andrea Burgay, Monica Church, Josh Dorman and David Hornung at 68 Prince Street Gallery, July 5, 2 pm. https://www.68princestgallery.com/

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8. Irina Danilova, FF Alumn, at Nadine, Brussels, Belgium, July 6, and more

Happy America! with hope by 259th anniversary America will be happy again..

There are three screenings of 59 Seconds Video Festival & AI59 next week in Europe:

On July 6, 7pm at Nadine,

Nieuwbrug 3 Rue du Pont Neuf, 100 Brussels

https://index.nadine.be/the-59-seconds-ai59-video-festival

and on July 10th in Hamburg.

in Hajusom Bunker

Feldstrasse 66

at 6pm

on July 12

in Wroclaw

in the

CUKR – Ukrainian Centre for Culture and Development

Ruska 46a, Wroclaw, Poland, 50-079

There are two more screenings in Ukraine on the following week.

Will keep you posted,

have a good (and cool) Summer!

Irina

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9. Jenny Holzer, FF Alumn, at Museu e Biblioteca de Serralves, Porto, Portugal, thru Nov. 1

JENNY HOLZER

WRONG ANSWERS

Museu e Biblioteca de Serralves, Porto

Until Sunday 1 November

https://www.serralves.pt/en/ciclo-serralves/2606-jenny-holzer/?utm_source=Current+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=eca12f283d-April_Museum_Openings_2026_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c951207a70-fb119f2979-741899566&mc_cid=eca12f283d&mc_eid=3de43dd552

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10. Ken Butler, FF Alumn, at The Brico Lodge, Brooklyn, July 17 and more

3 Fridays @ the Brico Lodge

427 Manhattan Ave. Brooklyn

Live music and projections in artist’s loft

July 17th @ 8pm

Miguel Frasconi-

glass/electronics

Patrick Derivaz-

bass/computer

Ken Butler-

hybrid strings

July 31st @ 8pm

Yuli Beeri-

bass/voice

Isaac Gardner-

drums

Ken Butler-

hybrid strings

August 14th @ 8pm

Nick Demopoulos-

Smomid instrument system

Doro Tachler-

keys/strings/electronics

Ken Butler-

hybrid strings

$20 suggested donation

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11. Barbara Hoffman, FF Alumn, Art Lawyer’s Journal, new issue now online

Please visit this link:

https://eyr6rs5ab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001DtMk0YtY9o-fNB3Yus22a1wSllJUBDg6rjCWNa8fpM-eIZoV2MqRLEM_Yn5rwLvLQn7FPVCJox-L86QwnATxvj–1FLkEeeB9Jvqm3aU13sYLckEF0PWsslicZ759nDwZHBJbrFuZTlBGMstZTIYX8Zu7XryRxMr_Jlz-GkUSKgPLoLBIvZ7FJ0CUWPCfXKB6Is_t00Ig0AbtwQrtuZx-h95gC1_MpCXRMquFYHsZix4rdSTezoom0gcdDkRBwDvaEF8Fj8e9imf_BT7G8cgRIAFfF6BiX6dwdwMDzCDkPHBmPdDaJU_QA==&c=TMu0QkPk_9HLwOfelIbqgfxNltFH3PDRdzlwpJxuCzbLW-_zG5ixxA==&ch=5eniFB4pwR–NW9t31rfLJ620F_8XInZiHz2k1FhMkj5TS879EfhYw==

Thank you.

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12. Julie Atlas Muz, FF Alumn, receives LMCC Manhattan Art Grant 2026

Please visit this link:

https://lmcc.net/resources/manhattan-arts-grants/

Thank you

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13. Brooke Singer, FF Alumn, at Francis Kite Club, Manhattan, July 8

For those of you in NYC, the next edition of Not an Artist Talk! at Francis Kite Club in the East Village is on Wednesday, July 8th.

Tega Brain will be the featured speaker, and we are raising money for the one-and-only School for Poetic Computation.

For more information and tickets…

Hope to see you there!

Brooke

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14. R. Sikoryak, FF Alumn, new publication and more

My new graphic novel, Declaration/Emancipation Illustrated is out now!

https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/declaration-illustrated

I’ll be doing events in Philadelphia (July 3), New York City (July 11), Baltimore (July 18), and San Diego (July 23-26).

R. Sikoryak revisits the Declaration of Independence on the 250th anniversary of its signing

A prequel of sorts to his Constitution Illustrated, Sikoryak presents the unabridged text of the Declaration of Independence alongside the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address in a double sided book, rendered in the bright, bold, and iconic styles of over 100 different American comics, cartoons, and graphic novels from over a century.

The severing of colonial ties to Great Britain has never been more vividly manifested than in the skillful hands of Sikoryak, who doesn’t hesitate to dream up Jeffy from Family Circus as Thomas Jefferson and Mr.Magoo as a British loyalist. King George III is deliciously portrayed as pop culture’s most famous villains, such as Thanos, The Joker, Scar from The Lion King, and many more. Sikoryak also skillfully adopts the styles of such comic artists as Will Eisner of The Spirit, Allie Brosh of Solutions and Other Problems, Morrie Turner of Wee Pals, Mark Beyer of Amy and Jordan, and Floyd Gottfredson of Mickey Mouse. The Civil War era pays homage to Black Panther, Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, Steenz’s Heart of the City, Justice League, and many more.

Declaration/Emancipation Illustrated is an entertaining multilayered history lesson for buffs of the American Revolution and American comics.

July events

PHILADELPHIA, PA

Brave New Worlds—Old City

55 N 2nd Street

Friday, July 3 5:30-7:30 pm

https://www.instagram.com/p/DZdFWhvJhyR

NEW YORK, NY

53rd St Library

18 W 53rd Street

Saturday, July 11 4 pm

https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2026/07/11/person-author-talk-r-sikoryak-declarationemancipation-illustrated